单词 | to break open |
释义 | > as lemmasto break open b. to break open: to open or enter by breaking. Cf. also to break up 10 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > force or wrench open unspurna1300 upbreak1382 to strike up1467 to break open1594 wrench1607 force1623 spring1825 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3v Shee much amaz'd breakes ope her lockt vp eyes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 74 Go fetch me something, Ile break ope the gate. View more context for this quotation 1621 F. Quarles Hadassa (1638) 89 Break ope the leaves, those leaves so full of dread. 1623 J. Mede in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 150 The king siezes upon all the Merchants Letters from Spain, breaks them open. 1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 109. Advt. His stable being broke open, was stoln one Brown bay gelding. 1753 W. Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. 287 They broke open his house and carried him from his naked Bed. 1853 Arab. Nights (Rtldg.) 266 The very robbers who had broken open and pillaged his house. < as lemmas |
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